"While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone."

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Source : "History students will no longer tolerate or believe grand narratives" by Colm Toibin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

Colm Toibin

#Lying Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Self Quotes

“Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alex Grey from Mar 17, 2014
“People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.”
“Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.”
“If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.”
“To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. Often Patriarchal blessings tell us the gifts we have received and declare the promise of gifts we can receive if we seek after them. I urge you each to discover your gifts and to seek after those that will bring direction to your life's work and that will further the work of heaven.”
“Moral certainty is intellectual immorality”
“Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to the right places. I haven't given up hope because there are always great artists, great minds, and great ideas. New ideas are what give you hope. You have to base your opinions on the quality of the ideas in the artworks.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.”

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